Compound tool.



witnesses CW PATENTED MAY 15, 1906 0. MATHENEY.

COMPOUND TOOL. APPLICATION FILED OUT. 18. 1905.

OTIS MATHENEY, OF OHRISMAN, ILLINOIS.

COMPOUND TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Eatented. May 15, 1906.

Application filed October 18,1905. Serial No. 283,347-

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, OTIS MATHENEY, ,a citizen of the United States,residing at Chrisman, in the county of Edgar and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Compound Tools and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to compound tools; and its object is to, provide adevice of this character which is of the hammer type and which hascombined with it a device for ex tracting staples 1 Another object is toprovide a tool of this character which is very durable in construc tionand which will effectively extract staples and can also be convenientlyutilized as a hammer and wire-cutter.

The invention consists of a hammer having a pointed curved tongueextending from the head thereof, and fulcrurned to the handle of thehammer is a lever having a fork at one end which is adapted to straddlethe tongue so as to force a staple upon the tongue when it is desired toextract it. The portions of the handle and lever adjoining their fulcrumare formed to constitute wire-cutters.

The invention also consists of certain other novel features ofconstruction and combination of parts which will be hereinafter morefully described, and pointed out in the claim.-

In the accompanying drawings I have shown the preferred form of myinvention. In said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of myimprovedcompound tool. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a section online a; 00, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of one end of thetool, showing the positions assumed by the parts in the operation ofextracting a staple.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1 is a hammer-head ofany suitable contour having a tapered tongue 2, extending rearwardlytherefrom and curved so that the end of the tool will present a curvedsurface on which the tool can be rocked during the act of extracting astaple. The head has a handle 3 extending from it, and this handle isenlarged adjacent the head so as to present a substantially circularappearance, as shown at 4:, and recesses 5 are formed at diametricallyopposite points within the periphery of this enlarged portion. A lever6, having an enlarged circular portion 7, is connected to the handle 3by means of a pivotpin 8, which extends through the centers of theenlarged portions 4 and 7, and said enlarged portions are approximatelyhalf the thickness of the handle and lever, so that when the two partsoverlap and are in contact the handle and lever will lie in the sameplane, as shown particularly in Fig. 3. One end of the lever 6 isforked, as shown at 9, and this fork is adapted to straddle the tongue2. The enlarged portion 7 of lever 6 has grooves 10 in its peripherywhich are adapted to registerl with the grooves 5 when the tool isclosed, as shown in Fig. 1.

When it is desired to extract a staple by means of this tool, the handle2 and lever 6 are swung apart, so that the fork 9 will leave the tongue2. The end of said tongue is then inserted in the staple and lever 6 isdrawn toward the handle 3. The tongue will therefore be forced into thestaple and said staple will be pressed upon the tongue, as shownparticularly in Fig. 4;, and by rocking the tool on the curved end ofits head the staple can be very easily extracted. The grooves 5 and 10constitute eflicient Wire-cutters, and it is of course obvious that thehead 1 can be utilized as a hammer. All of the parts of the tool arevery durable and when assembled, as described by me, they constitute anefficient compound tool for the purposes intended.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a compound tool, the combination with a hammer-head having a curvedtongue extending therefrom, the end of said head bein curved, and ahandle extending from the head; of a lever pivoted to the handle, thecurved face of the tongue being concentric with the pivot of the lever,and a forked end to the lever adapted to straddle and swing throughoutthe length of the tongue the plane of the forked end being transverse tothe tongue.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

- OTIS MATHENEY.

Witnesses:

ROBERT VINT STORM, JOHN W. ELDER.

